CVE-2004-0758 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service on SSL pages by importing a malicious CA certificate with a duplicate DN.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2004-0758?
CVE-2004-0758 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Mozilla, published on 3 Aug 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0758?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mozilla Mozilla.
How do I fix CVE-2004-0758?
No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0758 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-0758 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0758 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Mozilla
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6ccr-h2cv-pc67.